3 articles tagged with Opentelemetry.
Run a DaemonSet agent on every node and a small gateway Deployment behind it. Two Helm values files, the processor order that keeps the Collector alive, and the errors you will hit first.
OTel promises no lock-in, vendor agents promise zero-config depth. Here is where each one actually earns its keep once you run it in production.
How we run OpenTelemetry tracing across dozens of services. The instrumentation that earns its place, the patterns we abandoned, and what tracing actually catches that metrics don't.
